<p>Would a newly arriving freshman be able to have some selectivity in his/her dorm partner? Do freshmen even have dorm partners? What exactly would be the setup of a freshman's quarters? Who would engage in maintenance and how would it be managed?</p>
<p>When you are accepted and send in your deposit, you are signed up for a new student’s website that is linked to your Cornell ID.</p>
<p>Here you make housing preferences and have the option of searching for roommates. If you find a roommate, and both use the “request a roommate” option on each other, then it is likely that you will be placed together.</p>
<p>Freshmen dorms are really all over the place, no one can give you a complete answer. You can be placed into a Single, Double, Triple, or Townhouse. And any one of those can be in any of the freshmen dorms with completely different setups.</p>
<p>There is a cleaning and maintenance crew that regularly cleans bathrooms and public areas and maintains facilities. You are responsible for your own bedroom.</p>
<p>As a freshman, can you choose to live in a single if that is your preference? Or do they just give you whatever they want to give you??</p>
<p>you can select a preference for a single. you’re not guaranteed it but since there’s quite a few of them in many off the dorms you’ve got a pretty good shot at one.</p>
<p>about maintenance: since you’re using a lot of other words that aren’t the way Americans talk about college living I’m not sure if I know what maintenance exactly means. I guess you basically want to know how the dorms are kept clean and in working order. there are university staff who clean the hallways and bathrooms. if you have something in your room that needs fixed (furniture, windows, etc.) you can put in a maintenance request online and someone will come fix it for you. you can also put in a maintenance request for common areas, for things like a shower. you are responsible for taking care of your own floor and bedding inside your room; no one will be in it to clean for you.</p>
<p>What freshman dorm has the most parties? Which is the quietest?</p>
<p>Yes, I was also wondering what was considered the “quiet” dorm. I’m all for socializing and stuff, but I don’t want a lot of loud party-ers cramping my style, ya know? I haven’t decided if I want to live in a single or a double yet. My parents both told me having a roommate sucks, you’ll still meet people, blah blah blah. I was originally leaning towards a double because there are a lot of perks to having a roommate, but now I’m really considering the downside. What’s Clara Dickson, where most of the singles are, like? It seemed old and dark on our visit, whereas CKB seemed pretty cool (and I also like that I’m sharing a bathroom with fewer people if I’m at CKB or Mews). I suppose the best case scenario would be a single in one of the newer dorms (CKB/Mews), but is the difference between Dickson and the newer dorms so great that it’s actually better to be in a double at the newer dorms than in a single at Dickson?</p>
<p>In terms of quietness, I think Balch is known as the “quiet” dorm. It’s also known as the anti-social dorm and is all-girls. I live in Balch right now so let me know if you have any specific questions, but basically the social life in any dorm is what you make of it. It’s very easy to sleep and study in Balch, and while it isn’t as social as dorms like Donlon, I didn’t find it hard to make friends…in fact, most of my friends are Balchies.</p>
<p>I’m also in a single, which I do think is better than a double. It’s great to have your own space and not have to worry about privacy, but it doesn’t hinder your ability to have a social life. You can sleep, wake up, study, etc. whenever you want without worrying about bothering somebody else, and all you need to do is leave your room to make some friends and have a good time.</p>
<p>It looks like I’ll have a bit of a decision to make. Find a roommate and run the downsides of being with another person, or attempting to stay solo and go through the downsides of dull periods?</p>
<p>malan89 – You want a single. Although I would find it amusing if you somehow ended with a big lefty of a roommate.</p>
<p>Most people aren’t that good of friends with their room mates anyway. And I wouldn’t say having a single negatively or positively affected my ability to make friends/socialize at all.</p>
<p>Your roommate is not going to drag you out of the room to go make friends. It’s up to you, and whether you have one or two beds in your room makes little difference.</p>
<p>It depends…like what if you get with a boring roommate or one who isn’t that hygenic or however you spell it. Those are chances you have to take. Although chances probably aren’t that high, I can see it happening.</p>
<p>also remember that your idea of hygienic might vary from someone else’s. sometimes I think my (single) room is getting a messy, but then I go to some other rooms, single or double, and I’m reminded how other people just don’t mind junk/clothes/papers lying around. I would go for a single anywhere on North over any double.</p>
<p>Islander4, if you do decide you want a roommate, you can just sign up for wanting a double room without knowing anyone specific, and you’ll be placed with someone else who didn’t request a roommate either. since you’ll all be freshmen there will likely be lots of other people who don’t know someone else and who will be assigned that way.</p>
<p>what’s the process for future freshmen choosing their dorms anyway? it is different than we had, I know, because we couldn’t express a preference for CKB over Dickson or any of that on the housing forms.</p>
<p>Question</p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong, but in the financial aid package, a double room is used in estimating expenses…?</p>
<p>So, if we request a double and end up getting a single, are they willing to adjust the financial aid to help cover the extra cost? I’m not sure if I can afford the extra ~1k…</p>
<p>BTW, anyone notice the typo here?</p>
<p>[Housing</a> - Undergraduate Housing Rates](<a href=“Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University)</p>
<p>Single $8.480 <– $8.48 for a single! I’ll take it! Lol…
Double $7,500
Triple $6,900</p>
<p>I feel like there could be a way to consolidate that chart…how about just a rate for everywhere except townhouses? haha.</p>
<p>I have heard that what you suggest is the case, squareroot, but you’d better confirm that.</p>
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Yes, according to the finaid info sheet EDers got, they use the cost of a double to come up with the Cost of Attendance. You can however, go cheaper on the meal plan (the plan they use to come up with COA is 14 meals a week, while the cheaper plan is 10 meals a week–I don’t eat a big breakfast and I don’t plan on eating in the dining halls on weekends so 10 meals a week plus Big Red Bucks for when I want breakfast or a nice little dining hall Sunday brunch seems plenty adequate) in order to make up the extra cost of the single.
Most of my family–immediate and extended–are pretty big liberals (my Irish Catholic grandmother still has a picture of JFK in her living room), so I’m used to it. I’ve already told some of my cousins that I’m banning any political discussion at next Sunday’s Easter gathering, so as to avoid any health care gloating ;).</p>
<p>If you are assigned a single, you can request a change in your expenses through financial aid to try to cover it, but they will only give it to you in terms of work-experience or loans, I’m pretty sure.</p>
<p>I know they will not cover it through grants.</p>
<p>Also, this goes on every single year but there is NO REASON TO SPECULATE ABOUT HOUSING.</p>
<p>You will be assigned a dorm, regardless of your preferences. The number of students who want singles in CKB or Mews is enormous, guess what, most of them don’t get it. And people who picked Dickson, Donlon, and Townhouses as preferences end up with those singles instead.
It is entirely arbitrary and you will live where you get assigned.</p>
<p>That’s true. You can request Balch by selecting all-women, but even that’s not necessarily guaranteed (at least, I don’t think it is, even though your chances of getting into Balch are quite high).</p>
<p>About FA…last year, there were four drop-down options for rooms (single, double, triple, quad). It was up to you how you filled your preferences, and you didn’t have to fill up all four. If a single is not any of your four choices but you are assigned to one, I’m pretty sure Cornell will cover the difference. But if it’s on your list, even as your last choice, you’ll have to pay full price. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong. lol)</p>
<p>No, I’m pretty sure you can ask for an aid increase regardless of what you put down as your preferences.</p>
<p>The catch is that it’s not free money (grants) used to cover the difference. It’s loans or extra work-study eligibility.</p>